Tatsuya Sakuma

Tatsuya Sakuma
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1974-07-04) July 4, 1974 Miyagi, Japan
D1 Grand Prix career
Debut season	2001
Current team	Team Toyo
Best finish	7th in 2006
Previous series
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Championship titles
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Tatsuya Sakuma (佐久間達也, Sakuma Tatsuya, born 4 July 1974, in Miyagi) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team Toyo.

He has competed in the D1GP series since the very beginning, starting out in a Nissan Silvia PS13 He did not do very well, scoring only 2 points in his first four years. His big break came when he was signed by Aviation Performance Products, who gave him a new Nissan Silvia S15 to drive. In 2005, his first year with APP, he scored 41 points, getting a third and second place and finishing ninth overall. The year after he did even better, finishing seventh overall; this led to him moving to Team Toyo in 2007. Since then he hasn't done so well, Team Toyo S15 obviously not suiting his driving style.

Complete Drifting results

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D1 Grand Prix

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Position	Points
2001		Nissan Silvia PS13	EBS	NIK DNQ	BHH	EBS TAN	NIK				-	0
2002		Nissan Silvia PS13	BHH	EBS 10	SGO TAN	TKB DNQ	EBS DNQ	SEK	NIK TAN		30	2
2003		Nissan Silvia PS13	TKB	BHH	SGO DNQ	FUJ DNQ	EBS DNQ	SEK	TKB		-	0
2004		Nissan Silvia PS13	IRW	SGO	EBS	APS	ODB	EBS 16	TKB DNQ		-	0
2005	APP	Nissan Silvia S15	IRW	ODB TAN	SGO 3	APS 8	EBS TAN	FUJ 16	TKB 2		9	41
2006	APP	Nissan Silvia S15	IRW 7	SGO 16	FUJ 4	APS TAN	EBS TAN	SUZ 3	FUJ 7	IRW 10	7	53
2007	Team Toyo	Nissan Silvia S15	EBS 9	FUJ TAN	SUZ 16	SGO TAN	EBS TAN	APS 4	FUJ 10		15	23
2008	Team Toyo	Nissan Silvia S15	EBS TAN	FUJ 15	SUZ 12	OKY DNQ	APS TAN	EBS	FUJ		22	7

Sources

• D1 Grand Prix